Part 5of5: Elastic Storage Productizes IBM’s Watson R&D

IBM’s announcement of its new codenamed “Elastic Storage” solution, part of its larger software-defined storage (SDS) portfolio, is dramatic by most any measure. According to the company, “Elastic Storage” performs unprecedentedly, scales infinitely and reduces storage costs by up to 90% via automatic tiering—moving data to the most economic storage hardware. In addition, like other products in IBM’s SDS portfolio, Elastic Storage can access/process any type of data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) on any storage media (including tape, HDDs, SSDs and Flash) on any platform (including IBM’s competitors) without geographical limitations.